EYE GAZE COMMUNICATION

By:- VAIBHAV KUMAR 08R01A0465

WHAT IS EYE GAZE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM?

The Eye gaze System is a direct-select vision-controlled communication and control system.

Edmund Huey built an early eye tracker, using a sort of contact lens with a hole for the pupil. The lens was connected to an aluminum pointer that moved in response to the movement of the eye

It was developed in Fairfax, Virginia, by LC Technologies, Inc.

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The Eye gaze System is a communication system for people with complex physical disabilities. This operates with eyes by looking at control keys displayed on a screen. With this system a person can synthesize speech, control his environment , operate a telephone, run computer software, operate a computer mouse, and access the Internet and e-mail.

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With the help of an eye gaze system, people whose communication abilities are impaired can still express their feelings and needs with a limitless vocabulary.

WHO USES THE EYE GAZE SYSTEM?

This system is mainly developed for those who lack the use of their hands or voice

Its users are adults and children with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, ALS, multiple sclerosis, brainstem strokes

PARTS OF THE EYE GAZE SYSTEM

WORKING OF THE EYE GAZE SYSTEM

As a user sits in front of the Eye gaze monitor, a specialized video camera mounted below the monitor observes one of the user's eyes. Sophisticated image- processing software in the Eye gaze System's computer continually analyzes the video image of the eye and determines where the user is looking on the screen. The Eye gaze System uses the pupilcenter/corneal-reflection method to determine where the user is looking on the screen.

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An infrared-sensitive video camera, mounted beneath the System's monitor, takes 60 pictures per second of the user's eye. A low power, infrared light emitting diode (LED), mounted in the center of the camera's lens illuminates the eye.

The LED reflects a small bit of light off the surface of the eye's cornea.

The light also shines through the pupil and reflects off of the retina, the back surface of the eye, and causes the pupil to appear white.
The bright-pupil effect enhances the camera's image of the pupil and makes it easier for the image processing functions to locate the center of the pupil

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The computer calculates the person's gaze point, i.e., the coordinates of where he is looking on the screen, based on the relative positions of the pupil center and corneal reflection within the video image of the eye.

THE BASIC EYE GAZE CAN

Calibrate

Typewrite
Read Text Entertain with games Teach Screens

THE MAIN PROGRAM

THE PHRASE PROGRAM

THE TELEPHONE PROGRAM

As a mouse controller

AS A KEYBOARD

THE LIGHTS & APPLIANCES PROGRAM

ADVANCEMENTS
New portable eye gaze systems

INTELLIGAZE IG-30
It is a sophisticated system with a high tracking rate and excellent working range. It can accommodate rapid or involuntary head movements Intelligaze uses the latest camera technology, very sophisticated image processing and calibration methods

FUTURE WORK
The Eye gaze Systems Eyefollower2.0

Totally Free Head Motion Automatic Eye Acquisition Binocular Eye tracking High Gaze point Tracking Accuracy Easy User Calibration

CONCLUSION
Today, the human eye-gaze can be recorded by relatively unremarkable techniques. This thesis argues that it is possible to use the eye-gaze of a computer user in the interface to aid the control of the application.

Care must be taken, though, that eye-gaze tracking data is used in a sensible way, since the nature of human eye-movements is a combination of several voluntary and involuntary cognitive processes.

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